nibbula
pagers and piping
Piping into more or less does not seem to work as expected.
$ less lish.lisp
displays pages as in Bash, but
$ cat lish.lisp | less
does not display any text, whilst more displays the first page of text.
Using a simple C code in place of less, isatty returns the same when used under Lish or Bash.
p.s. Thanks for all the documentation!
Ah! You found a bug that happens to run very deep. I do know about it, but I'm now reminded why I haven't fixed it yet. The proper fix to this requires quite a significant amount of plumbing work. I think I really should get about doing it now.
BUT, there is a simple work-around, which is a bit of cheat. I happened to have written a pager in Lisp that is more-or-less compatible with less. So if you just say:
Lish> alias less pager
it shouldn't be too different than expected.
Hopefully the differences will not be too annoying until I can put together the real fix. The explanation is fairly long, but if you're curious I could outline it.
